parabasis การใช้
- The actors depart and the Chorus treats us to another parabasis.
- The birds of the Chorus step forward for another parabasis.
- Sheppard quotes a segment of text from near the beginning of the parabasis:
- While the actors are offstage, the Chorus addresses the audience in a conventional parabasis.
- She presides over the Chorus of birds while they address the audience in a conventional parabasis:
- Trygaeus goes indoors to prepare for his wedding and the Chorus steps forward again for another parabasis.
- Segal contends that Aristophanes transformed the Greek comedy structure when he downgraded the contest or agon which usually preceded the parabasis and expanded the parabasis into the " agon ".
- Segal contends that Aristophanes transformed the Greek comedy structure when he downgraded the contest or agon which usually preceded the parabasis and expanded the parabasis into the " agon ".
- "The Wasps " is thought to offer the best example of a conventional approach and the elements of a parabasis can be identified and located in that play as follows.
- The second parabasis in " Wasps " appears to indicate that he reached some kind of temporary accommodation with Cleon following either the controversy over " The Babylonians " or a subsequent controversy over " The Knights ".
- The anonymous " Life " states that this advice was the basis of Aristophanes receipt of the olive wreath, and the author of the ancient Hypothesis says admiration of the parabasis was the major factor that led to the play's second production.
- Dikaiopolis and Lamachus retire to their separate houses and there then follows a parabasis in which the Chorus first lavishes exaggerated praise upon the author and next laments the ill treatment that old men like themselves suffer at the hands of slick lawyers in these fast times.
- The play lacks a parabasis and has an undeveloped agon, the choral songs between episodes are not included in the script and the lacuna is often indicated by the note " choru " ( " place for a chorus " ) which is more characteristic of Menander and New Comedy.
- For example, in the play " The Wasps " by Aristophanes the first parabasis is about Aristophanes'career as a playwright to date, while the second parabasis is shorter, and contains a string of in-jokes about local characters who would be well known to the ancient Athenian audience ( e . g . the politician Cleon ).
- For example, in the play " The Wasps " by Aristophanes the first parabasis is about Aristophanes'career as a playwright to date, while the second parabasis is shorter, and contains a string of in-jokes about local characters who would be well known to the ancient Athenian audience ( e . g . the politician Cleon ).